Megacap strength is likely to continue, says Chris Verrone, chief technical strategist at Strategas Research Partners.
The EU-funded project also provides for several research partners to create 200, 000 more.
Summer Street Research Partners will act as sole book-running manager for the offering.
But Jeff Sprague, a Vertical Research Partners analyst, estimates that GE enjoys a 20% to 30% premium over peers.
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Polling was conducted for BBC World Service by the international polling firm GlobeScan and its research partners in each country.
Yet there are signs that leading industrial firms are starting to increase their capital spending, says Jeff Sprague of Vertical Research Partners, a research outfit.
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Now it has added six new research partners and 10 more initiatives in areas such as driver distraction, pedestrian safety, child safety and elderly drivers.
That's because internal knowledge allows companies to more readily identify the most promising research areas, which in turn allows them to select the most promising research partners.
Lake Research Partners conducted a recent nationwide poll confirming that 80% of Americans, regardless of gender, political affiliation, urban or rural residence, or geographic location, oppose horse slaughter for human consumption.
Prof Bell said there are already robust methods in place to protect people's privacy in medical research which rely in part on limiting access to the data to trusted research partners.
Millennials regarded health care reform as one of their top concerns during the 2008 election campaign, according to the Rock the Vote Poll of 18- to 29-year-olds, conducted in February 2008 by Lake Research Partners.
The thinking, say school administrators, is that international students who stay in academia will connect U.S. schools with new research partners, while those entering the corporate world may become clients of business schools' lucrative executive education programs.
Like ARPA-E, EERE is now cooperatively negotiating research milestones into its funding opportunities with its National Lab, industry, and University research partners so that its investments are geared toward technology outcomes (e.g. cheap solar panels, high performance vehicle batteries, etc.).
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During the late-'90s technology bubble, Griffin and his research partners watched as individual investors kept buying tech stocks as their prices continued to fall, thinking they were buying a bargain when in fact they were hitching themselves to an anchor.
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While the magazine advertising pages across the industry were down 9.5% in 2008 and 20% in 2009, Meredith's magazines saw their ad pages drop 14% in 2008 and only 1% in 2009, according to Craig Huber, an analyst at Huber Research Partners.
But between 2001 and 2011, U.S. annual consumption of daily-newspaper newsprint plunged an estimated 61% to 3.6 million tons and annual consumption of paper used for printing, note pads and more fell roughly 38%, according to Vertical Research Partners, which tracks the paper industry.
Even if Compaq (nyse: CPQ - news - people) makes IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) blue in the face by temporarily stealing the supercomputing crown, the resulting public-relations windfall and any money it gets from research partners may not amount to enough to recoup what's being spent on research.
Engineers from Ford's European Research Centre in Aachen, Germany and simTD research project partners so far have tested the developmental technologies in a controlled environment.
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By contrast, Peruvian jewelry makers and knitters selling through the usual commercial channels receive only 1 to 5 cents of the retail dollar, according to research by Partners for Just Trade, in St.
The judges for the final round came from Tappan Street Partners, Longbow Research and Paramo Capital Partners.
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Dr. Green is a medical geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and associate director for research at the Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine.
Whereas creating a memory-chip industry is mostly a matter of buying fabrication equipment off the shelf, classier chips require lots of well-trained engineers, research and technology partners elsewhere in the computer industry.
Recent research by MBO Partners, which provides business infrastructure to self-employed professionals, found that low income was a chief source of unhappiness for dissatisfied independent workers and drives some back into seeking full-time jobs.
The project is a joint research initiative of nine partners including Atos, Athens Information Technology, IBM's Haifa Research Lab, Imperial College London, City of Santander, and PRISA Digital and Telesto.
E-Commerce will again be a driver of revenue this year, rising by an expected 12%, according to research firm Customer Growth Partners.
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The research would involve both federal research agencies and private partners.
This bold new 10-year initiative on global environmental change research for sustainability was launched by an alliance of international partners from global science, research funding and UN bodies during the Forum.
The biggest opportunities for investors might be in emerging markets, says Phillip Colmar, a partner at MRB Partners, a research firm.
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